Penguin Books Australia

The global financial crisis is different to other recessions. It challenges many economic fundamentals. Its resolution will fundamentally change the world and the way business is done.

After the Crisis  projects this new future, analyses the causes and historic parallels, examines the limits of the growth, and graphically reports what is happening on the front-line around the world. Griffith REVIEW ...

We were flying over a landscape that looked primeval. Way below there were pyramid-shaped peaks covered in tropical forest... Going into the forests of Papua New Guinea today is like taking a trip back in time to Australia 15 million years ago. Then, even in the central desert, there were permanent rivers and lakes surrounded by tropical vegetation. Dolphins and crocodiles lived in the waters, flamingos...

Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of...

In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment.  Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional life.  A few years later she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer, fall in love and, as a Wall Street speechwriter, enjoy ringside seats...

In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes.

This is a collection of work by W.E.H. Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has been out of print and astonishingly hard to find for many years. The revival of these essays, selected and introduced by Robert Manne, is a significant event.

A compelling insight into the French 19th-century painter's life and times.

Delacroix's journal - fresh and unselfconsciously spontaneous - is one of art history's most important documents.

Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding.

Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media decides the issues for public debate. In Reporting Conflict , one of two inaugural titles in the New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series, Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung challenge reporters to tell...

'The extraordinary thing about this book is that it is the real thing. Readers can finally find an authentic insight into this extraordinary time'  Jim Perry (co-creator of Dad's Army), The Times

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

'The most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet' 
Claire Tomalin

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer.

'Magnificent . . . The man is all here in this book, in this stunning, almost baffling plenitude.  Bellow's letters are one of Bellow's greatest books.' – The New York Times Book Reviews

After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked free in February 1990. This collection of his articles, speeches, letters from underground, and the transcripts from his trials, vividly demonstrates...

With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley

'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'
Independent on Sunday